A bunch of dinguses are using capitalism’s inability to cope with the coronavirus pandemic as evidence of… socialism.
It’s a age-old trope conservatives love to whip out when there are food shortages in places like Venezuela. The irony that panic buying is a uniquely capitalist problem must be lost on them. When faced with a real crisis of a system they blindly support, they demonstrate zero ability to reflect.
Gideon Rozner, a former Young Lib-turned-Wunderkind of the Institute of Public Affairs, decided to use the coronavirus pandemic and the panic shopping it has caused to stage a public self-own.
This is your economy on socialism. pic.twitter.com/AyhaRNR2d7
— Gideon Rozner (@GideonCRozner) March 15, 2020
People let him know just how cooked his take was in the replies.
this is literally your economy right now under predator capitalism
— Scott Ludlam (@Scottludlam) March 15, 2020
Is it? When was the revolution, comrade?
— Stetson Roadkill 🇺🇸🪖🤠 (@dyatlovassincdt) March 15, 2020
That’s funny, sure looks a Woolies to me
— Ben Eltham (@beneltham) March 15, 2020
And where would we be without an incoherent chime from Australia’s Minister of Conspiracies, Malcolm Roberts? Luckily that’s a question that doesn’t need to be asked.
Australia gets a taste of Socialism. pic.twitter.com/CiYQ8b4wF8
— Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 (@MRobertsQLD) March 6, 2020
“Toilet paper shortage shows us what ALP’s ‘net zero CO2 by 2050’ policy will look like,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet. The man clearly has a very strange outlook on the world.
Again, people reminded him of his goddamn ignorance in the replies.
Can you please define socialism for me
— Amy McQuire (@amymcquire) March 10, 2020
this is capitalism you old ass sucker
— PubicZirconium (@PubicZirconium) March 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/nadinebh_/status/1237530226764034048
There are free dictionaries on line, you drongo.
— Giovanni Torre 🇦🇲 (@GiovanniTorre) March 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/MilesKlee/status/1237855491767689216
ThiS Is sOciALisM pic.twitter.com/TkSKZgk2xG
— Nick Gillham (@Nikeyg1) March 10, 2020
— Standplaats Krakow PLS RT PINNED! (@Standplaats_KRK) March 10, 2020
So there you have it. We may be gradually entering a coronavirus-induced lockdown, and people definitely are raiding supermarkets of food and toilet paper, but we’re definitely not living under socialism. Quite the opposite, actually.
